Decision analytic strategies for integrating ecosystem services and risk assessment

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 260-268

  von Stackelberg, Katherine E ^a  

^a E Risk Sciences LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Ecosystem services; Influence diagrams; MCDA; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880401660     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1393     Document Type: Article

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